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Broken Crusade

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Broken Crusade

By: Steven B Fischer
Narrated by: Alex Lanipekun
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A Black Templars Audiobook

The Black Templars of the Second Dornean Crusade attempt to join the rest of their fleet to relieve a siege on the shrine world, Tempest. Thrown off course by a warp storm, and beset by doubt, can they cling to their faith and come to their brothers’ aid?

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This story offers insight into the relationship the Black Templars have with faith, and their sense of destiny. Plus, there's always plenty of action when the followers of Khorne are involved.

THE STORY

On the fringes of the Cicatrix Maledictum, the Black Templars of the Second Dorean Crusade tear through the void to join the crusade fleet on the sands of Tempest – an ancient, storied shrine world. Assailed by the murderous warbands of the Blood God, the crusade has come to burn the planet clean of the Ruinous Powers once and for all.

But when a violent warp storm scatters the fleet, the Dauntless Honour is left battered and alone in the void. Besieged by doubt, Castellan Emeric and his brothers must cling to their faith and carve a way to Tempest. For it is there that their battles will truly begin, and the cost of victory may be more than even they are prepared to pay.

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I loved this book so much all I can think after finishing it is how badly I want a follow up to this

Glory…

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I have a feeling that the author isnt a big fan of Black Templars, most of the book you hear about the main character whining/complaining. "Broken" in the title was taken too far for me, majority of the books is about marines loosing. I suppose that it would be better for CSM fans than Templar fans/players.

Narrator does a good job though.

Mixed feelings

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The overall plot to this book jumps significantly and doesn't really follow a path. There are a lot of things that occur with limitted explanation or rationale.

The protagonist seems to act without reason. Sometimes making tactical and strategic decisions and then, at other points just conducting random actions.

The background on the World Eaters was a nice plus though!

The voice acting is great and really brings the story to life however. It saves the book.

Weak story, great performance.

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And that’s rage, hate and kill for the emperor, good story with different viewpoints, intriguing to see a world eater not controlled by his nails
Narration was very good

Templars doing what they do best

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Utterly mediocre book. Not a very good space marine story. I went through only because of Black templars. Space marines were way too emotional and main character spent as much time moping about as fighting. The self doubt and complaining becomes tedious quickly.

It was OK, but I cannot recommend it.

Utterly mediocre

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If I didn’t know any better I would say this was narrated by a 7 foot tall super soldier. Great story, but the immersion set by the narrator was brilliant.

Unreal narration.

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Perfect book to listen and enjoy, about the one company that made its way to conguer a planet

The story of the company commander

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A great 40K book, a brilliant voice and acting.
Highly recommend to any listener interested in the black templars and their funny little ways.

For Dorn

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There is some good and some bad. It is worth saying that it took me 3 months to finish this story as the story didn't intreague me, the Helbrecht book I finished in two days as a comparison.

A quick note on the writing : overall good, but far too many 'heroic monologues', they fell flat after a while.

On the story : for some reason the importance of the Templars mission is never felt. I believe the author wanted the feeling of hopelessness to emerge, which is clearly felt throughout, but the drive and purpose of the Templars feels hollow.

In character design, I have the impression that the author read Helsreach and wanted to duplicate it, it didn't quite work. I will expand on this more below as I think this is what didn't sit well with me most of all.

The good is the relationship between the humans and the Templars. The author is able to demonstrate the limits of humanity and provide some good insight into life on-board a templar vessel. I also think he captured the world eaters tragedy well, who I think he wrote better than the templar characters. Now for the bad - The author tried to make the Templar protagonist relatable and deep, however the juxtaposition of superior human with mortal concerns did not work for a space marine, the character comes across as weak and out of character. How can he be a castellan of the Templars with such doubt? He comes across as a petulant emo child at times. In the flip side a side character, also a templar is so single minded he is a caricature. The Chaplain was very well written though. Overall I did not recognise the templar traits I love so much from other templar books and short stories. It made me sad.

Not bad, but not amazing

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the overall story was okay, some of the story's around the characters were better than
than the main story.
not the worst and not the best I've listened too.

not bad.

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